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just continuing your thoughts, president obama, this is his third budget. i just find it peculiar that he would stay just now that you're waiting for us to lead. >> no. that did not mean to imply that. let me correct that. obviously the president has the responsibility for laying out to the country and world every year a budget and path to reduce deficits. >> waiting for us. >> not at all. we had to take the initiative. the book disagree about some sources. we will have to figure out what makes sense. i know you are having this debate about current spending for this fiscal year to be as important as that can be, you will have the chance to lay out an alternative vision. my point is, just to come back to where i began, your focus understandably, we can bring some restraint it. >> in your report from your budget the state -- or i should say, that presents a budget, even with this fundamental change an aging population and continued high level of health costs will pose serious budget problems. absorb a much larger share of federal resources than in the past li
just continuing your thoughts, president obama, this is his third budget. i just find it peculiar that he would stay just now that you're waiting for us to lead. >> no. that did not mean to imply that. let me correct that. obviously the president has the responsibility for laying out to the country and world every year a budget and path to reduce deficits. >> waiting for us. >> not at all. we had to take the initiative. the book disagree about some sources. we will have to...
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but barack obama is handling this quite well. this is one where you want to be slow and steady, slowly said goodbye to the president mubarak, and slowly pushed for reform. if you think what you're watching now is chaotic, just wait until there is a power vacuum and the army and police decided to settle it, then it gets messy, with a lot of loss of life. he knows that. he is trying to walk a tight rope, which all presidents and presser carries half to watch. >> i will watch but i will let you watched a little bit of what robert gibbs is clarifying, what now means by transition, and courtesy of cnn, which cut this thing for us, let us let you take a look at this. how you define now, because now means they, not september? >> now we met yesterday. they are in the here and now, and now was as to pay. the time for transition has come, and that time is now. you're asking me if now is september? it is unseasonably warm, but it is not september. [laughter] bring back memories? >> the meaning of the word is -- [applause] >> each of us coul
but barack obama is handling this quite well. this is one where you want to be slow and steady, slowly said goodbye to the president mubarak, and slowly pushed for reform. if you think what you're watching now is chaotic, just wait until there is a power vacuum and the army and police decided to settle it, then it gets messy, with a lot of loss of life. he knows that. he is trying to walk a tight rope, which all presidents and presser carries half to watch. >> i will watch but i will let...
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he said the obama administration has failed miserably in that regard. it is focused on consumption and fiscal stimulation that will give us 4% growth in 2011. his estimate the estimate for these experts from 2.5 to 4. he had the highest growth projection for this year. then he adds it gives us nothing more than that. it's a sugar high that quickly disappears in 2012. and so we are facing some serious grim pros techs. the unemployment has not come back well. as we would like to see it. indeed, at the end of the year the government survey indicates that the hours worked had not increased which is an indicator that unemployment will go down if weekly ours are going up. that's not a good factor. the wage increases was slight very slight this year and below inflation. so that puts our net wage income not in a very good position. the amount of jobs added looked better than they are because we have to add what 150000 a month to stay level. so we've seen job increases, but not much above the level that you have to have to really reduce unemployment. and if wage
he said the obama administration has failed miserably in that regard. it is focused on consumption and fiscal stimulation that will give us 4% growth in 2011. his estimate the estimate for these experts from 2.5 to 4. he had the highest growth projection for this year. then he adds it gives us nothing more than that. it's a sugar high that quickly disappears in 2012. and so we are facing some serious grim pros techs. the unemployment has not come back well. as we would like to see it. indeed,...
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we begin with remarks by president obama. this is just over an hour. >> obviously, his departure is not the biggest one today. [laughter] having said that, i thought i would come into the briefing room to say a few words about my departing press secretary. as some of you know, robert started very early with me on this wild ride that i had been on. i had run for the united states senate. i was not expected to win. when i won, the democratic primary in illinois, i realize that was going to have to start stocking up a little bit. at the time, i only had six or seven people working for me. i did not have a lot of money, so all that i could afford was robert gibbs. [laughter] robert came to work with me and we had a pretty significant general election. and then alan keyes came in, and so that ended up not being our primary focus. we then had this incredible opportunity to speak at the national convention. i know that a lot of you think that probably most attention was devoted to the speech that i delivered in boston. in fact, the
we begin with remarks by president obama. this is just over an hour. >> obviously, his departure is not the biggest one today. [laughter] having said that, i thought i would come into the briefing room to say a few words about my departing press secretary. as some of you know, robert started very early with me on this wild ride that i had been on. i had run for the united states senate. i was not expected to win. when i won, the democratic primary in illinois, i realize that was going to...
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inslee: maybe thinking president obama gave his state of the union, who talked about celebrating the winner of the science bowl, about using the chinese advances in clean energy as our sputnik moment. so that we would be called to have a new apollo energy project. and we know, we know we can do and clean -- in clean energy what our ancestors did in space. which is to lead the world in clean energy. we know this can be the american destiny. and the reason we know that is because our vision, our vision is one based on optimism and confidence. our vision is that we know we can invent new forms of energy so that we don't cause additional asthma problems in our children. now, this is a difference between us and the republicans who want to pass this dirty air act. we realize two things about our children. number one, when polluters pollute and expose them to dangerous levels of ozone and increases in asthma attacks and respiratory problems in senior citizens, those kippeds don't have anywhere to run and -- kids don't have anywhere to run and hide. an oil company can go around in places of
inslee: maybe thinking president obama gave his state of the union, who talked about celebrating the winner of the science bowl, about using the chinese advances in clean energy as our sputnik moment. so that we would be called to have a new apollo energy project. and we know, we know we can do and clean -- in clean energy what our ancestors did in space. which is to lead the world in clean energy. we know this can be the american destiny. and the reason we know that is because our vision, our...
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in fact, the obama deficits for the last two years have been about $1.5 trillion. that's a lot of money. that's three times bigger deficit than president bush's worst budget deficit. you take his worst deficit, which is about $450 billion and we are talking the last two years, we are running $1.5 trillion. this is what's going on. if you are like an awful lot of americans, you want to solve a problem. we have a problem where we are apparently spending too much money. you say, what are our alternatives? how do we approach this? i'm thankful this evening that we've got one of our very bright young freshman congressmen from the state of colorado. scott is here to join us, scott tipton. scott, i want to make sure you know, any time you want to jump in here, you can talk about this. what's your reaction? you are knew here in d.c. you look at the size of the entitlement that's the same size of what we take in for a whole year, isn't that a little bit of a spooky thing to be walking down here and running into this as a problem? mr. tipton: it truly is. and we just finishe
in fact, the obama deficits for the last two years have been about $1.5 trillion. that's a lot of money. that's three times bigger deficit than president bush's worst budget deficit. you take his worst deficit, which is about $450 billion and we are talking the last two years, we are running $1.5 trillion. this is what's going on. if you are like an awful lot of americans, you want to solve a problem. we have a problem where we are apparently spending too much money. you say, what are our...
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. >> stephen harper met with obama today. he and the president held a joint news conference, talking about energy, border security, and trade. obama spoke about the relationship with u.s. and canada. >> canada is our largest trading aprtner and the top -- partner and the top exporter, bringing several thousand jobs here. we're working to create jobs for both of our people. first, we have agreed to managing our share of the responsibilities. this goes beyond the border. that means working more closely to increase security with better screening and new technology, information sharing among law enforcement, and identifying threats early. and improving the free flow of goods and people. with over $1 billion every single day, proper border management is important for my goal of doubling the u.s. exports. i thank you for your leadership and commitment to reaching this agreement. we have directed the team stood creating an action plan to move quickly, and i am, that we will get this done to enhance our prosperity. we have a new effo
. >> stephen harper met with obama today. he and the president held a joint news conference, talking about energy, border security, and trade. obama spoke about the relationship with u.s. and canada. >> canada is our largest trading aprtner and the top -- partner and the top exporter, bringing several thousand jobs here. we're working to create jobs for both of our people. first, we have agreed to managing our share of the responsibilities. this goes beyond the border. that means...